Banjo-Kazooie conceals a hidden minigame called Bottles’ Moving Picture Game within the confines of Banjo’s house in Spiral Mountain, accessible only after obtaining the Jiggy from Treasure Trove Cove’s Sandcastle location. Players must position themselves on the green carpet directly in front of the fireplace and use the first-person camera perspective to examine Bottles’ portrait hanging above the mantelpiece, triggering a conversation where Bottles enthusiastically reveals his secret moving picture game and promises mysterious rewards. The gameplay mechanics involve completing jigsaw puzzles featuring scenes from various game worlds, with each successful completion earning players unique cheat codes that can be entered in the Sandcastle’s letter grid system. These cosmetic transformation codes provide amusing alterations to the protagonists appearance, including enlarged body parts, distorted proportions, and ultimately the complete transformation into a washing machine through the final reward. All effects remain temporary and can be reversed either by entering the NOBONUS code or reloading the save file, ensuring players can experiment freely without permanent consequences. The Xbox 360 version introduced some technical considerations, notably retaining Musical Notes permanently after world completion rather than resetting them upon exit, though some players experienced a bug where certain Musical Notes would vanish after interacting with Bottles’ portrait. Although subsequent patches addressed this critical problem, cautious players should consider collecting all Musical Notes before engaging with the portrait game to avoid potential data loss complications.
» Procedure of the Minigame
The minigame’s operational structure presents players with a blue puzzle frame displaying moving scenes from the game’s diverse environments, which subsequently fragments into twenty individual jigsaw pieces that scatter around the frame’s perimeter. Players control Banjo’s disembodied hand using the A button to select and manipulate fragments, with the objective of reconstructing the complete image within a strict 90-second time limit. This puzzle format bears similarities to Master Jiggywiggy’s challenges found in Banjo-Tooie’s Jiggywiggy Temple, where players solve increasingly complex jigsaws to unlock new worlds throughout the Isle O’ Hags. The difficulty progression follows a structured pattern, with challenges featuring straightforward piece placement while later puzzles introduce additional fragments and more complex visual compositions. Each completed puzzle rewards the protagonists with special codes corresponding to the challenge number, beginning with BOTTLESBONUSONE for enlarged head effects, progressing through BOTTLESBONUSTWO for bigger hands and feet, BOTTLESBONUSTHREE for Kazooie’s head and wing enlargement, BOTTLESBONUSFOUR for Banjo’s diminished head together with elongated torso, BOTTLESBONUSFIVE combining multiple distortion effects, and the final code BIGBOTTLESBONUS merging the first three transformation cheat codes simultaneously.
» Bottles Final Challenge
Upon completing all six initial challenges, Bottles awards players the BIGBOTTLESBONUS code and claims to have exhausted his supply of puzzles for the adventurous duo. However, this declaration proves to be deliberate misdirection, as returning to the carpet and examining his portrait through first-person view reveals Bottles has prepared one ultimate challenge featuring enhanced complexity. This final test maintains the same fundamental puzzle format but introduces the additional requirement of proper rotation, forcing players to not only place fragments in correct positions but also orient them using the C buttons for manipulation. Most fragments begin in incorrect rotational states, demanding attention to detail and precise timing within the same 90-second constraint. Completing this final challenge unlocks the legendary WISHYWASHYBANJO code, which transforms the protagonists into a washing machine while remarkably preserving all standard abilities including flight, Talon Trot, and Rat-a-tat Rap attacks. This transformation represents more than cosmetic alteration, as Washing Machine Banjo receives immunity to harmful terrain that would normally require Wading Boots protection, though he cannot use the Wading Boots or Turbo Trainers equipment and cannot carry items like Blubber’s Treasure. The washing machine form demonstrates unique physics properties, moving on wheels for enhanced mobility while maintaining complete access to Kazooie’s combat and traversal ablities, which creates an amusing contradiction between mechanical appearance and organic functionality.
» List of Contents
BANJO-KAZOOIE
✤ BOTTLESBONUSONE – Banjo’s head grows in size
✤ BOTTLESBONUSTWO – Banjo’s arms and legs turn big
✤ BOTTLESBONUSTHREE – Kazooie becomes three times bigger
✤ BOTTLESBONUSFOUR – Banjo’s head shrinks in size
✤ BOTTLESBONUSFIVE – Banjo’s body turns into clay
✤ BIGBOTTLESBONUS – Banjo and Kazooie turn big
✤ WISHYWASHYBANJO – Banjo transforms into a washing machine
✤ NOBONUS – Banjo and Kazooie become normal
